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EnglishPod: Learn Business English with Daily MP3 Podcasts (Level: Elementary--Advanced)

National Tsing Hua University

FL102003 Freshman English II Syllabus 2008 Spring 

Course Code Number: FL 100205    Instructor: Hsien-Chin Liou 劉顯親

E-mail: hcliu@mx.nthu.edu.tw     TEL: 03-57-42709

Class hours: Wednesdays & Fridays 10:10 a.m. – 12:00 noon Classroom: C412

Office hours: R 9-11am, F 8:30-9:30am; other time, make an appointment with me in advance Office: 人社院 B517 

Textbook: Mosiac I: Reading, Writing (2007 edition)

Goals: Integrated skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing to prepare students for college English demand. 

Requirements & Rules:

1.  Class attendance, lesson preparation and active class participation are required.

2.  Absence from a class is no excuse for not knowing the assignment and what has been discussed in that class. It is your responsibility to ask your classmates or me what has been covered in the class.

3.  Cheating on the exam is absolutely not permitted. If someone is found cheating on an exam, it means he/she will get a zero point for that exam.

4.  There will be no make-up exams unless you have valid and official reasons for absence beforehand.

1. The handouts I give you should be kept at least to the end of this semester for later reference or final exam.
2. Please turn off your cell phone during the two-hour class period.
3. Keep quiet when the instructor or some student(s) are talking or presenting on the platform.

 

Grading:

Attendance and participation – 10% (if one is absent 6 times from this course in this semester, one fails in this course; absent twice, 1 point lost; absent 3 times, 3 points lost; 4 times, 5 points lost; 5 times, 8 points lost)

Midterm exam – 17%

Final exam – 18%

Online writing assignments – 20% (blogging) late more than one week, one gets zero in that assignment

3 Vocab quizzes – 18%

Speaking activities (+podcasting) 17% 

Lab sessions: 2/29, 3/28, 4/18, 5/2, 5/23 (postcasting, and blogging)

Wednesday 2/20	Orientation, Textbook: reading—chapter 6: money matters	Friday 2/22	Ch6 writing: money matters
2/27	Vocab quiz; Reading: ch6 cont’d	2/29 Lab	Podcasting/Writing assignment 1 “Success in ____ business” (p. 117)
3/5	Supplementary materials (補充教材) “college pressure”	3/7	Meaning of college education, cont’d
3/12	Reading ch7 remarkable individuals	3/14	Writing: ch7 remarkable individuals
3/19	homework	3/21	homework
3/26	First speaking activity; ch7	3/28 Lab	Writing assignment 2, “A leader I admire” (p. 138) or “An ideal leader for Taiwan of 2012”
4/2, 4	SPRING	BREAK
4/9	Reading ch8 creativity	4/11	Writing Ch8 creativity
4/16	MID-TERM EXAM	4/18 Lab	writing assignment 3, a creative person/project (p. 156)
4/23	Reading ch9 human behavior	4/25	Vocab quiz (units 12, 13, 14);Writing Ch9 human behavior
4/30	Reading ch9 cont’d	5/2 Lab	Writing assignment 4, p. 181 Nonverbal behavior+ media for illustration
5/7	Reading—ch 10: crime and punishment	5/9	writing ch10 crime & punishment
5/14	Reading ch10 cont’d	5/16	Speaking activities; Writing 10 cont’d
5/21	Reading ch10	5/23 Lab	Writing assignment 5, Summary/reaction essay OR for/against crime/punishment, p. 204
5/28	Supplementary materials, “Cultural patterns and rhetoric”	5/30	Cont’d
6/4	Cont’d	6/6	“How ideas affect us”
6/11	Vocabulary Quiz units 15, 16	6/13	FINAL EXAM

• taceo—to be silent

taciturn (adj.): silent, uncommunicative, reserved… permanently, habitually disinclined to talk

tacit (adj.): unspoken, unsaid (e.g. a tacit understanding)

reticent (adj.): prefers to be silent

 

• loquor: to speak

loquacious: love to talk

soliloquy: a speech to oneself

ventriloquist: someone excelling at “speaking from the belly” (venter, ventris, belly)

colloquial: suitable to everyday conversation (when people speak together)

eloquent: expressive, fluent, or persuasive in language (e-, from ex-, out)

 

• Laconia: the old name for Sparta, where the people were known for their economy of speech

laconic (adj.): concise, economical in the use of words almost to the point of curtness

verbose (adj.): too many words

verbum: word

verbal (adj.): verb, or words in general

 

• volvo, volutes: to roll

voluble (adj.): words effortlessly roll off the speaker’s tongue

garrulous (adj.): to chatter (garrio, to chatter)

revolve (v.): roll again and again, or keep turning around (e.g. the earth revolves around the sun)

revolution (n.): complete rollingàa radical change of any sort

involve (v.): to “roll in”

evolve (v.): to “roll out”àto unfold, or gradually develop

 

• cogent (adj.) clear and logical

 

• vox, vocis: voice

fero: to bear or carry

vociferous: carrying a lot of voiceàloud, noisy

 

• somnus: sleep

insomnia: the inability to fall asleep

 

• articulus: a joint

 

• Jean Martinet: a strict general

martinet (n.): someone asks an excessive, inhuman discipline from others

• sykon: fig

phanein: to show

sycophant (n.): someone who uses flattery, servile attentions, or any other form of insinuating themselves into someone’s good graces

• dilettare: to delight

dilettante (n.): someone who engage in a personal interest purely for amusement

virtuoso (n.) anyone who has developed consummate skill in an artistic field, especially music

 

• vir: man

virago: a masculine woman

 

• Nicolas Chauvin: a general who blindly worshipped Napoleon Bonaparte

chauvinist (n.): an exaggerated and blatant patriot

• pater, patris: father

patriotic (adj.): to love one’s country

patrimony (n.): an inheritance from one’s father (-mony, money)

paternity (n.): fatherfood

patriarch (n.): a venerable, fatherly old man

patricide (n.) the killing of one’s father (-cide, to kill)

• mater, matris: mother

matriarch (n.): the “mother-ruler”

maternity (n.): motherhood

matron (n.): an older woman

matrimony (n.): marriage

matricide (n.): the killing of one’s mother

 

• -cide: to kill

suicide (n.): killing oneself (sui-, of oneself)

fratricide (n.): killing one’s brother (frater, fratris, brother)

sororicide (n.) killing one’s sister (soror, sister)

homicide (n.): the killing of human beings

infanticide (n.): the killing of a newborn child (infant)

genocide (n.): the killing of a whole race or a nation (genos, race, kind)

 

• frater, fratris: brother

fraternal (adj.): brotherly

fraternity (n.): a men’s organization in a high school or college

sorority (n.): a women’s organization in a high school or college

 

• monos: one

mania (n.): madness

monomaniac (n.): someone who develops an abnormal obsession in respect to one particular thing

 

• phobia: morbid dread or fear

claustrophobia (n.): morbid dread of being physically hemmed in, of enclosed spaces, of crowds, etc.

 

• eikon: a religious image

klaein: to break

iconoclast (n.): someone who sneers at convention and tradition

 

• theos: God

atheist: someone who doesn’t believe in God and denies his existence

 

• gnostos: known

a-: negative prefix

agnostic: someone who considers it impossible to determine whether God exists or not

diagnosis: knowing through examination or testing (dia-, through)

 

• lechier: to lick

lecher (n.): someone obsessed with sexual activities

lecherous (adj.)

=libidinous (adj.)

=lascivious (adj.): wanton

=licentious (adj.)

=lewd (adj.): vile

=lustful (adj.)

 

• hypo: under

chondros: the cartilage of the breastbone

hypochondria (n.): someone who is morbidly, unceasingly, and unhappily anxious about health